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Why Investors Have Concerns About Amazon.com, Inc. If you owned shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), April 28 wasn't a great morning, after the mega-cap tech company stunned the market with weak first-quarter results and a warning about its second quarter. But while Amazon.com, Inc. fell short of investors'…
AMZN Stock Could Be the Next Big Pot Stock Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is pretty much known as the company that deals in everything. From diapers, to tech gadgets, to workout gear, to groceries, there’s little that Amazon stock doesn’t have a connection to. So it stands to reason…
TLRY Stock Climbs as Future Looks Brighter for Marijuana Stocks This has been a transformational year for many sectors. COVID-19, after all, has caused us to rethink entire swaths of our economy. But one sector that has undergone more change than most is the marijuana industry. Pot stocks,…
Time to Look Beyond the Nominal Price of Shares The answer to whether a stock is expensive or not has to do with a lot more than just its share price. There are many different valuation metrics—such as price-to-earnings ratio, price-to-book ratio, price/earnings-to-growth ratio, price-to-free-cash-flow ratio, etc.—that can…
A Fast-Growing E-Commerce Stock That’s Not Amazon Over the past decade, the e-commerce industry has been growing rapidly, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only added fuel to the fire. When numerous brick-and-mortar retailers had to close during lockdowns, consumers had no choice but to go to online vendors.…
Top Tech Stocks Face Congress It's no secret that Big Tech and government regulators have long been at odds. Antitrust issues and the spread of misinformation are the two main concerns that governments the world over have scrutinized these tech behemoths for, ending, in some cases, in billions…
Tech Stocks on the Rise It's an uncomfortable fact of the stock market that the fortunes of Wall Street aren't always reflected on Main Street. Put differently, just because personal wealth, employment, or finances across the country may be in shambles, that doesn't necessarily mean the stock market…
Coronavirus Stock Market Prioritizes Online Sector Well, it's safe to say that I called this one incorrectly. A few weeks ago, I thought that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) would come and go, being no more harmful than SARS or the swine flu before it. It appears I was…
How Walmart Stock Hopes to Overtake Amazon Stock With the tech industry, we’re always on the lookout for the next big thing, the next company that replicates the massive success experienced by a larger but potentially older (and therefore slower) company. The "uber of " became a…
The Streaming Stock Wars Are About Content Something that many of the newcomer video streaming services have learned is that, in this world, content is still king. In that regard, old stalwarts of the industry remain on top. Shares of Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) gained about 23% in 2019,…
AMZN Stock: No Stopping This Internet Powerhouse Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is getting attacked from all angles, namely retailers, who blame the company for their woes, and governments, who are concerned about Amazon's large influence in retail and the cloud. AMZN stock is down 9.5% over the past month,…
Amazon on Top of the World, With No Desire to Relinquish Position If I had to invest in only one stock and wasn't allowed to sell it, that stock would likely be Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). Amazon stock is the best of breed, regardless of whether the company operates in…
AMZN Stock: Bearish Signals Continue to Mount In September, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) reached a coveted milestone by becoming only the second company to ever reach a $1.0-trillion valuation. It was not a coincidence that the markets followed suit by forging new highs of their own; AMZN stock is a…
Amazon to Further Expand Its Physical Retail Presence? Technology stocks took some serious losses in the recent market sell-off. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) happened to be one of them. After reaching $1.0 trillion in market capitalization in September 2018, AMZN stock started a downward journey, plunging more than 20%…
AMZN Stock: The Tide Has Shifted 2019 is fast approaching and I am sure many are wondering what it has in store for investors. 2018 is ending in horrific fashion, on pace for the worst December since the Great Depression. This does not exactly bode well for things…
AMZN Stock: A Bull Market Still in Development The markets are currently skittish and a violent move in the indices could erupt at any moment. There are a number of factors currently giving investors angst, which is causing this skittish environment. These factors all stem from investors trying…
Jeff Bezos Is the New Warren Buffett Regular readers of Profit Confidential know that I frequently compare Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), to legendary investor Warren Buffett. They have the same gift—an eye for value. Buffett used his talents to amass the greatest investing…
Trump’s War on Jeff Bezos Although shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) broke records in 2017, this year’s growth has been stunted by an ongoing feud with, you guessed it, President Donald Trump. The president’s tweets regularly cause a minor AMZN stock crash. For instance, on March 29, 2018,…
Amazon on Sale as Trump Attacks Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) lost about $55.0 billion in value on March 28 on an escalation of attacks from President Trump, blaming the company for hurting the retail sector along with not paying adequate taxes to the government coffers. Now the fresh attacks…
Momentum Is Required for AMZN Stock to Stage an Advance The resilience of this stock market is impeccable. Equity markets around the world are forging new all-time highs, and there's little to suggest that the trend toward higher stock prices is going to end anytime soon—especially when heavyweight…
